Hard Core Tri Corps (Team 8) Thread (Page 9)

As negativity raider I must confess a great bit of negativity...WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN THE FRESH MEAT err LEG shots up yet.  What are you guys doing?  I get 175 reminders of threads and most of them ar from you  delightful TWSNIBBS folks and now you're visiting us minus the leg shots? 

Tried to take shots of the shoulders tonight, need someone to get them...OR if any one feels industrious, you can go to brightroom.com and look up HHH ShadyGrove Power sprint 6/3/07 Richmond VA and look up bib 333.  Damn I was diesel crossing that line and every muscle is at its absolute BEST

My plan for tomorrow is somewhat altered...0545-0745 SWIM, stop at Starbucks for the required coffee.  Drop car off at garage (heater is broken and it'sstinking COLD air blowing through it), ride my bike from the garage to my allergists office for shots (maybe 6 miles, lots of traffic) wit the required 20 minutes post shots to ride a short errand back home (another 3-4 miles) to steam clean carpets.  If the car is done early enough in the day, I get to ride back up to the garage, and drive home with the bike in the rear--gotta love a station wagon!

Those are some CRAZY AZZ muscles and you are AIRBORNE in the rain!!! Wooooo what a power shot! (Now why is it I'm always posting your pics for you? )

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Morning all

Hope you had a brilliant weekend. Apologies for going AWOL - I'm not usually this unsociable, but I was on a training course yesterday and when I tried to logon from home my laptop went crazy on me.

I love Bunny's challenge because it's good to be forced encouraged to think positive thoughts! I was going to say my legs, but then I saw Judi's picture... so instead I'm going for my ankles.

Weird, I know, but you only truly appreciate things like ankles when they're gone and in the last few weeks of my pregnancy my ankles swelled up and completely disappeared. So I'm never taking them forgranted again

OK, so these aren't as hot as the legs shots going around...

In my effort to become more like a fish, I went to master's last night - I hadn't been since May or June.   It's at Notre Dame's Rolfs Aquatic Center which is TOP NOTCH.  I love swimming there with all the Big East and NCAA Chapionship banners.  Plus the water polo teams practice on the other end.  It's just so motivating to be in that environment.  It also doesn't hurt to have a coach on the deck, pushing you and giving pointers.

Some triathletes say they don't like masters cause you waste time learning other strokes like back, breast, butterfly.  For me it's a nice change of pace.  In fact, I LEARNED BUTTERFLY STROKE last night.  We started with one-arm butter fly drill, then we did some dolphin kicks.  Finally, I put it together and did 4x25 of fly.  The last 25 was definitely my best, but man, my lower back and shoulders are sore - obviously need some technique work.  The coach was suprised that it was my first time - maybe I didn't look as bad as I felt?!?!  Master's was definitely NOT a waste of time.     

Oh yeah... I also got up and swam for 30 minutes this morning.  HOOWAH!!!

What a BEAUTIFUL baby!!!! I'll take baby shots any day!

Yanti you're posting pics for me cause (note smack talk to self here) I am totally inept on the computer beyond the basic cut/paste and post.  Give me a H-P cardiac monitor, a dfibrillator, vent...and I can go to town.  Make me do anything but chart on the computer and I am a KLUTZ.

OK, time to WHINE (not about the work out, just the way the day has gone and it's still early).  Coach Bret had a killer 2600 yard set for me today.  Drove over for the necessary coffee then dropped the car off as planned.  Rode my bike to the allergists office (note huge rolling hills and lots of traffic, it's 40-45 degrees out and drizzling) only to find the office doesn't open today until 11:30 AM.  So now this cold, wet, hungry, tired body (in need of a ladies room) has to ride 3 more miles HOME.  Can't wait for the rest of the coffee and a hot shower to fully thaw me out! 

Hopefully the rest of the day will get better from here.  I promise no more whining today

What a great swim! Butterfly - wow

For me swimming is more like drowning, so I am seriously impressed with the effort. (I think I need a swimming challenge in December...)

Nice advice from Zipp on the lessons.  Probably the best route so you don't learn any bad habits.

I've never had a "lesson."  I'm just too cheap.  Fortunately, I'm pretty bull-headed.  When I started back in late March of '06, I couldn't swim more than 25m.  Seriously, check out my logs from back then.  I'd look at swim work-outs that had all these sets of 200, 400, etc... and thought they must be kidding.   I basically kept at it; even if it meant 30 minutes at the pool to do 500m cause I was so out of breath after each length.  Eventually I built up enough endurance and confidence to show up at a Master's swim practice - It was tough, but I swam 2x as long as any other previous work-out.  I get somewhat free lessons from my master's coach, but nothing like a one-on-one.

For December, I'd use time at the pool as a challenge, like 4 sessions per week.  I'm already finding myself going for distance vs. quality swim/stroke improvement.

YOU CAN DO IT!!!

I am tooting my horn this morning, thankyouverymuch! I've been trying to run non-stop between these 2 traffic signs on the main drag of my route and even with a small decline it's been tough! This morning I succeeded! So, I'm going to keep doing that for a week or so and then I'm going to reverse my route and make running that sucker uphill my next beast to beat.

WTG, TERRI!  Super improvement!

I could never afford coaching, my swim instructor is free to gym members and he is there 2 mornings a week from 0545--0745 so that's when I go.  He coaches for a kids competitive league year round so I lose him in the summer when the kids are out of school since their practices move to AM's.  Last summer the gym hired a temp to fill in but she was there 2 weeks, did  an internship for PT school and returned early August when I was in NY for most of the month.  I filled in the summer using stuff from www.triswimcoach.com and learned how to put in more distance over less time.  Still working on the other strokes, my backstroke is okay, but the breast and butterfly are sorely lacking.  My coach did competitive fly so he has amazing shoulders.

My car will cost over $1200 to fix, there's a coolant leak and a cracked belt so they will be spending all day taking things out and replacing them, have to clean the engine out...that 37 mile drive to work is teally impairing the quality of life right now!

Oh Gill...rumor has it that December's challenge will be swimming

Bring it on

You've all inspired me to find a local pool to go to (can't justify joining a gym with family duties) and it turns out it has a tri-club who train there with swim coaching, so I'm thinking about joining that. I did have lessons pre-baby and they helped loads, but I quit the gym where they were held when I went on leave.

Night all!

D001 - 2007-11-07 10:36 AM

MrsUSMC - 2007-11-06 12:16 PM Oh Gill...rumor has it that December's challenge will be swimming

Yep, yep, yep..... I've heard that same rumor. Rumor also has it that Super Cat *may* be organizing it. Beth and I are already smack talking one another. LOL Dee

haha no rumour its TRUE! Cat and mystery man (to be revealed soon) are organising (aussie spelling) it!

Will get the details out early but will be very similar to the October challenge but with much better spreadsheets keeping etc... Im getting HELP!